Sentences with phrase «projects of women directors»

On November 25, 2014, I came from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Vancouver, British Columbia to join a group of eight carefully - selected female filmmakers from across Canada to participate in the nineteenth annual Women In the Director's Chair program, an internationally respected Canadian professional development offering, specially designed to advance the skills, careers and screen projects of women directors.

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Every day I need to touch Women Online (as creative director), Boston Mamas (as founder / editor), Edit Your Life (as co-host), Brave New World Designs (as designer / co-owner) + Christine Koh LLC (as principal... this includes various freelance projects, including one major managing editor contract) so efficiency and focus really are key, given that I need to cycle through projects during the day and also given that Laurel and Violet are not in after school programs (Jon and I really 50/50 it in terms of covering the after school window... I am so grateful for this)!

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

«It's in the interest of everybody to really assist a woman in that situation to rebuild her life and create a healthy home for her child,» Diana Claitor, director of the Texas Jail Project, told the Texas Observer in this week's Editor's pick, «Bonding Behind Bars» by health writer Alexis Garcia - Ditta.

The Baker Project is dedicated to Martha Baker, a lifelong advocate for women's rights and a founding director of Eleanor's Legacy, and to Constance Baker Motley, the first African - American woman elected to the New York State Senate.

Bunder Project director Stefanie Loader said «Social and community development work has been happening at a range of levels and across a range of issues, initially focusing on the needs of women and children.

Ron Deutsch, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, joined Alex Camarda, Senior Policy Consultant at Reinvent Albany, and Jennifer Wilson from the League of Women Voters, on Capital Tonight to discuss the «clean contracting» bill, which would require transparency of economic development projects.

She spends about half of her time on Crimson and other biorepository projects; she is also the director of the Brigham and Women's Specimen Bank and the Partners Biorepository for Medical Discovery.

She was the founding executive director of the Women's Project of the Vietnam Veterans of America from 1979 to 1984 — even testifying before congress on behalf of the over 7,400 + women Vietnam veteWomen's Project of the Vietnam Veterans of America from 1979 to 1984 — even testifying before congress on behalf of the over 7,400 + women Vietnam vetewomen Vietnam veterans.

Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

The WIDC's Women In the Director's Chair Industry Immersion practicum provided eight mid-career women screen directors with the opportunity to further their projects with input from leaders in all aspects of the film induWomen In the Director's Chair Industry Immersion practicum provided eight mid-career women screen directors with the opportunity to further their projects with input from leaders in all aspects of the film induwomen screen directors with the opportunity to further their projects with input from leaders in all aspects of the film industry.

With «Before Midnight,» writer - director Richard Linklater and actors Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy continue one of the most interesting projects in film history: a movie franchise based almost entirely on simple conversations between a woman and man.

The studio was banking on a cast of up - and - coming actors like Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller and a wunderkind director in the form of «Chronicle's» Josh Trank to push the Human Torch, the Thing, Invisible Woman and Mr. Fantastic into the modern era, but production difficulties may have doomed the project.

0:00 — Intro 10:20 — Headlines: Woman Sues Over Drive Trailer, Werner Herzog to Play Villain in One Shot, Disney to Re-Release Four More Movies in 3D, Tower Heist to Get Comcast VOD Release 33:45 — Review: The Ides of March 56:00 — Review: Real Steel 1:21:45 — Trailer Trash: Young Adult 1:26:55 — Other Stuff We Watched: Catching Hell, The Real Rocky, Halloween II, Blood Feast, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Innocents, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Black Sunday aka The Mask of Satan, Black Sabbath, The Blair Witch Project, The Living Corpse aka Dracula in Pakistan, Horror of Dracula, The Lion King, The Beaver, The Company Men, Pee - wee's Big Adventure, Miracle, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Submarine, Mimic, George Harrison: Living in the Material World 2:23:00 — Junk Mail: Supporting Filmmakers You Like, The Disney Vault, LOTR Theatrical vs. Extended Editions, Fantasy Films Piggybacking on Harry Potter, Henry Rollins and Kobe Bryant, Mathematical Equation for Determining the Best Directors, Friend in Me Remix 2:57:40 — This Week's DVD Releases 2:59:30 — Outro

But to a one, as far as I am aware, they've all been by male writers and male directors projecting their insecurities about women's ability — power, even — to give birth and their squickiness at the idea of where babies come from.

Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.

The film The first American feature by an African - American lesbian, Dunye's «The Watermelon Woman» stars its director as a video - store clerk and aspiring filmmaker working on a project about a long - forgotten black actress of the 1930s.

A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Musical Score was presented to: The Octopus Project for Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (Director: David Zellner, Screenwriters: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner)-- A lonely Japanese woman becomes convinced that a satchel of money buried in a fictional film is, in fact, real.

Coates's career proves she was a pioneer, not only as a woman, but also as an artist — someone unafraid to take risks, to challenge her directors, and to coax the elemental story out of each one of her projects, frame by frame.

Coming off a Foreign Language Oscar win for A Fantastic Woman, writer / director Sebastián Lelio is already back on the festival circuit in support of his latest project, Disobedience.

Neena Sohal, Director of Arts Asia brought the HLF funded project to fruition in 2014, which coincided with the celebration of 100 years since the birth of Noor - un-Nisa (the light of women).

Emily Martin, deputy director of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project, says that though single - sex education may be just the ticket for some kids, the risks far outweigh the benefits.

Levitan is also the co-founder and Director of Educational Programing and Operations at the Sacred Valley Project, a non-governmental organization dedicated to ensuring that Quechua young women are able to attend secondary school and become powerful leaders in the Peruvian Andes.

Founder & Director of The heART of a Woman Project.

Her other projects include Roma - Sinti - Kale - Manush (May - July 2012) at Rivington Place, London, as co-curator with Mark Sealy, Director of Autograph ABP and Gabi Scardi, Independent Curator; Reflections on the Self — Five African Women Photographers London and touring the UK (2011 - 2014), as part of Hayward Touring; and [Kaddu Jigeen]-- Women Speak Out (2011 - 2013), Galerie Le Manège, Dakar and touring Africa.

Usvitsky in Major Museum Exhibition on Fiber Art Noysky Projects is pleased to announce the exhibition of Katya Usvitsky's sculptures in «Women's Work» — an international exhibition that calls for a reexamination of traditional gender stereotypes, curated by San Diego Art Institute's Executive Director Ginger Shulick Porcella.

While the history of art is punctuated with epic painting projects by men — from Giotto to Michelangelo to Diego Rivera — the director of SFMoMA, Neal Benezra, said he was «hard - pressed to think of another woman painter working at this scale in a public place.»

She continued her collaboration with director Koyo Kouoh, working with her on several projects, such as Body Talk - Feminism, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of African Women Artists (to be held at WIELS, Brussels, in February 2015), and Streamlines, a project that makes the oceans the metaphorical focal point for an international group exhibition which will examine the cultural repercussion of the global stream of goods and trade between the South and the North (to be held at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, in October 2015).

«The Worlds of Bernice Bing» Produced and directed by Madeleine Lim Co-Producer and Project Director, Jennifer Banta Yoshida Presented by the Asian American Women Artists Association and the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project...

Long known for her unflagging commitment to art, artists, and activism as the dynamic director since 1994 of Creative Time — the not - for - profit powerhouse that brought us Kara Walker's sugar sphinx last year, among many other spectacular projects — with this appointment Pasternak becomes the first woman to lead one of the very large encyclopedic New York art museums.

After retirement from Southern Methodist University, he served as regional director of the Texas Project of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, and he continued to curate exhibitions including The American Woman as Artist, 1820 — 1965, and Texas Painting and Sculpture: Twentieth Century for the Pollock Galleries and Seventy - five Years of Art in Dallas for the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.

In the early part of the 20th century, European artists had also questioned accepted ideals of beauty, and the choice of Rossy de Palma, often referred to as «a Picasso portrait come to life» — her asymmetric features so impressed film director Pedro Almodóvar that he gave her a starring role in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)-- to model the latest Portable Art project collection is apposite.

BSB director of regulatory policy Ewen MacLeod says: «We are complementing [this report] with further projects such as the recent women at the Bar survey which has been designed to provide evidence about the challenges and experiences of different segments of the Bar.»

Among them are Niki Black, legal tech writer and speaker; Carolyn Elefant, founder of MyShingle; Joan Feldman, editor - in - chief of Attorney at Work; Mary Juetten and Jules Miller, the women who cofounded Evolve Law before selling it this year to Above the Law; Sarah Glassmeyer, project manager specialist at the ABA Center for Innovation; Ivy B. Grey, author of American Legal Style for PerfectIt, a proofreading and editing software for lawyers, and a frequent contributor to Law Technology Today; Margaret Hagan, director of the Legal Design Lab at Stanford Law School; Susan Hackett, CEO of Legal Executive Leadership; Lisa Needham, editor at Lawyerist; Jean O'Grady, blogger at Dewey B Strategic; Lisa Salazar of 3 Geeks and a Law Blog; and Nicolle Schippers, legal industry advocate at ARAG North America.

In 1972 Ginsburg joined the law school faculty at Columbia, and she founded and agreed to serve as director of the Women's Rights Project of the ACLU.

Throughout her time as an elected bencher (director) of the Law Society of Upper Canada (2003 - 2012), Laurie was engaged in specific projects affecting legal education in Canada, and in advancing women lawyers within the profession.

Angela is the Executive Director of The Fight Back Project, a non-profit organization created to raise awareness of violence against women and to promote personal safety.

When she was a law professor at Columbia, she, Brenda Feigen - Fasteau, former director of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project, and 15 law students put together a report for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

She has served on the Women's Life Center Advisory Board to the West Florida Regional Medical Center and to the Board of Directors to the Shands Home Care Project.

Prior to joining the Center for Women in Law, Linda served as the Assistant Director of the Project for Attorney Retention, an initiative of the Center for WorkLife Law of the University of California Hastings College of the Law.

«With the cases we are filing today, we are sending a clear message that we won't stop working until every woman can get the care she needs no matter who she is, where she lives, or how much money she makes,» said Jennifer Dalven, director of the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project.

was named Research Director of The Gottman Institute, Drs. John and Julie Gottman announced their new book, The Man's Guide to Women, and we kicked off a new research project.

She has been a project director of the Massachusetts Cost and Quality Study of Early Care and Education: Infant - Toddler Care and the Maine Cost and Quality Studies of Community Preschools and Family Child Care at the Wellesley Centers for Women since 2001.

Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, says young men and women in their 20 ′ s today suffer from the effects of modern hedonistic lifestyles that have shattered traditional family values and replaced them with a relationship wasteland instead.

She is also a board director with The Lunch Project, which empowers communities to support school lunch programs in Tanzania, a board director with Women Executives, and an active member of International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).